Iglesia samaritana.
Iglesia hospital de campaña.
Iglesia de los pobres y para los pobres.
Iglesia/Pueblo fiel de Dios.
Iglesia en las periferias existenciales.
Iglesia de los jóvenes y los niños.
Speaking off-the-cuff at lunch with 200 poor people from the Diocese of Rome, and welcoming them to the Pontifical gardens of Castel Gandolfo, Pope Leo XIV says:
“I didn’t prepare a speech because I am hungry. I’m hungry for justice, I’m hungry for authentic charity, I’m hungry for a Church that knows how to opens its doors, welcomes and looks after everyone.”
"Dear migrants: Before I say anything else I want to bow before your dignity. ... You are not just numbers or files. You are people who have left behind families and homes. You have dreams that no one has the right to despise.”
Pope Leo XIV in the Canary Islands.
Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth. #ApostolicJourney#Cameroon https://t.co/bKteFZ3iWE
Thanks to @CRCfordham, author and activist Sister Helen Prejean recently visited Fordham Law School and spoke to students about capital punishment and the death penalty. She also signed copies of the new graphic novel version of her award-winning memoir, "Dead Man Walking."
Abp Bergolio in ‘09 angrily castigating Caritas (Catholic Charities) for holding a company party at a fancy restaurant near a shanty town. “If you work for Caritas, your habits must change! You can’t allow yourself luxuries!”
A true prophet for the poor.
Prophets aren’t easy.
What is built on the basis of force, and not on the truth about the equal dignity of every human being, begins badly and will end badly. https://t.co/S9UDh2TPtO
I ask for interior knowledge of the Lord who became human for me so that I may better love and follow Him.
- St Ignatius of Loyola, Spiritual Exercises 104
Que el sacrificio del P. Marcelo Pérez no sea en vano, sino que nos impulse a todos a trabajar con mayor eficacia por la construcción de una sociedad más justa, pacífica y fraterna en #Chiapas y en todo el país, fiel al mensaje del Evangelio que él predicó con su vida y su muerte, así lo recordaremos.
Que Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, Madre de México, interceda por nosotros y nos guíe en estos momentos de dolor y tribulación.